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The '''Severians''' or '''Severyans''' or '''Siverians''' were a tribe or tribal union of ] occupying areas to the east of the middle ] around the rivers ], ] and ] on the territory of the archaelogical ]. | |||
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==Etimology== | |||
The '''Severians''', also '''Severyans''', '''Siverians''', or '''Siverianians<ref>{{Cite web |date=1993 |title=Slavs |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CS%5CL%5CSlavs.htm |access-date=2023-01-25 |website=Encyclopedia of Ukraine}}</ref>''' ({{langx|be|Севяране}}; {{langx|bg|Севери}}; {{langx|ru|Северяне}}; {{langx|uk|Сiверяни|translit=Siveriany}}) were a ] or tribal ] of early ] occupying areas to the east of the middle ] and southeast of the ] River. They are mentioned by the ] (9th century), Emperor ] (956–959), the ] ruler ] (c. 955), and in the ] (1113). | |||
The etimology of the name of Severians is controversial. Though it is similar to the Russian word for "north" (''sěver''), the severians never were the northiest tribe of Slavs. More probable is that the name is of iranian (sarmathian tribe of "Seuer", from Iranian "seu" = ''black'') or Turkic origin (a part of Huns). Alternatively, the name may be derived from a ] word for "family member". | |||
==Ethnonym== | |||
The modern names are ''Сiверяни'' in ] and ''Северяне '' in ]. | |||
The ] of the name "Severian" is uncertain. The name of the ] region originated from the Slavic tribes. One theory proposes derivation from the Slavic word for "north" (''sěver''; men of the north<ref name="Franklin-Shepard"/>), but the Severians never were the northernmost tribe of Slavs. Another theory proposes an ] derivation, from the name of the ] ''Seuer'' tribe (''seu'' meaning "black").<ref name="Quarterly">{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YqQrAQAAIAAJ |journal=The Ukrainian Quarterly |publisher=Ukrainian Congress Committee of America |year=2000 |volume=56 |page=184|title=The Ukrainian Quarterly }}</ref> Some scholars have argued that ] called this tribe the ''Sawarta,'' based on the '']'' (c. 930), written in ] as ''SWRTH'' (read either as ''Sur'ata'' or ''Sever'ata''), derived from Slavic ''sirota'' ("]"; in the letter, possibly meaning "convert"); or that the name "Severian" comes from the ] ''Savarti'' ("black"; possibly borrowed from ] ''])''.<ref name="Brook">{{Cite book |author=Kevin Alan Brook |date=2006 |title=The Jews of Khazaria |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hEuIveNl9kcC |publisher=] |pages=105–106, 55, 58, 35 |isbn=9781442203020}}</ref> Based on the writings of the ], some scholars connect the ethnonym to the ''Zuierani'',<ref name="Łuczyński">{{cite journal |last=Łuczyński |first=Michal |date=2017 |title="Geograf Bawarski" — nowe odczytania |trans-title="Bavarian Geographer" — New readings |url=https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/show-content/publication/edition/64469?id=64469 |language=pl |journal=Polonica |volume=XXXVII (37) |page=73 |doi=10.17651/POLON.37.9 |access-date=4 August 2020}}</ref> '']'',<ref name="Witczak">{{cite journal |author=Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak |title=Poselstwo ruskie w państwie niemieckim w roku 839: Kulisy śledztwa w świetle danych Geografa Bawarskiego |url=https://www.academia.edu/6870884 |year=2013 |journal=Slavia Orientalis |volume=62 |issue=1 |language=pl, en |pages=25–43}}</ref> or '']'' (most probably the ]<ref name="Łuczyński"/><ref name="Witczak"/>).<ref name="Łowmiański1986">{{cite book|author=Henryk Łowmiański|author-link=Henryk Łowmiański|title=Studia nad dziejami Słowiańszczyzny, Polski i Rusi w wiekach średnich|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-dBAAAAYAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewica w Poznaniu|pages=161–169}}</ref> | |||
==Geography== | |||
Their neighbours were the tribes of ] and ] in the north, and the ] and ] tribes in the west. The eastern and southern borders of the tribe's habitat were never permanent and would sometimes reach the upper reaches of the ]. | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||
The Severians are believed to have continued the East Slavic tribal union along the middle Dnieper valley, after the political disappearance of the ] and ], either independently or under Khazar policy. It is presumed they inhabited the lower ] and upper ] and ] rivers. They were thought to have been centered in ] ("black city"<ref name="Quarterly"/>).<ref name="Magocsi">{{cite book |author=Paul Robert Magocsi |author-link=Paul Robert Magocsi |title=A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TA1zVKTTsXUC |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2010 |pages=47, 49, 57, 66 |isbn=9781442610217}}</ref> However, as the Severians in the historical sources inhabited both the Dnieper valley and a part of the ] valley, and as the ] realm was said to be so great that all Slavs traced their origins to it, ] believed that the ]n Severians were the Slavic mother tribe.<ref name="Witczak"/> Professor ] described the Severian Slavs as mix of ] and ] formerly ] speaking ].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stoianovich|first=Traian|title=Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe|publisher=Taylor & Francis Inc|year=1994|isbn=9781563240331|location=Armonk, United States|pages=134}}</ref> | |||
Their existence as a political unit can be proven for the 8th to ]. They had to pay tribute to the ] in the 8th and ], were annexed by ] to the Kiev state together with the ] in the late 9th century, and participated in Oleg's campaign of the ] to ] in ]. Finally they became part of the ]. The last reference to them stems from ]. For subsequent history of the region, see ] (whose name is derived from "Severians"). | |||
Some Severians settled in the territory of present-day northeastern ], (], and ]).<ref name="Fine">{{cite book |author=John Van Antwerp Fine |author-link=John Van Antwerp Fine, Jr. |title=The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0NBxG9Id58C |publisher=University of Michigan Press |year=1991 |pages=69, 77 |isbn=9780472081493}}</ref> According to ], the ] subjugated the so-called ]. One of these tribes, the ''Severeis'', were resettled in the east "from the ]s before Veregava" ({{lang|el|ἀπό τῆς ἔμπροσθεν κλεισȣ́ρας Βερεγάβων}}), most likely the ] of the ]; while the other six tribes were resettled in the southern and western regions, as far the boundary with the ].<ref>{{cite book |last=Fiedler |first=Uwe |chapter=Bulgars in the Lower Danube region: A survey of the archaeological evidence and of the state of current research |title=The Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_-G1L-9Zec0C |editor-last1=Curta |editor-first1=Florin |editor-link1=Florin Curta |editor-last2=Kovalev |editor-first2=Roman |date=2008 |publisher=Brill |pages=154 |isbn=9789004163898}}</ref> In 767, the ] kidnapped the Severian ] Slavun, who had made trouble in ], indicating they retained a tributary relationship with the Bulgars.<ref name="Fine"/> | |||
The other Severians had as neighbors the ], ], and ] in the north and the ] and ] in the west.<ref>{{cite book |author=Martin Gilbert |author-link=Martin Gilbert |title=The Routledge Atlas of Russian History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FMe8RgimEAAC |publisher=Psychology Press |year=2002 |page=12 |isbn=9780415281195}}</ref> Those tribes had to pay tribute to the ] in 859 in the form of ] and ] skins,<ref name="Dolukhanov">{{cite book |author=Pavel Dolukhanov |author-link=Pavel Dolukhanov |title=The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TIkABAAAQBAJ |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |pages=182, 194 |isbn=9781317892229}}</ref> which suggests they lived in or near the northern forests.<ref name="Franklin-Shepard">{{cite book |author1=Simon Franklin |author-link1=Simon Franklin |author2=Jonathan Shepard |author-link2=Jonathan Shepard |title=The Emergence of Russia 750-1200 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TsoFBAAAQBAJ |publisher=Routledge |year=2014 |pages=77–78, 109, 120, 195, 197 |isbn=9781317872238}}</ref> In 884, ] annexed their territory to the ].<ref name="Magocsi"/><ref name="Dolukhanov"/><ref name="Subtelny">{{cite book |author=Orest Subtelny |author-link=Orest Subtelny |title=Ukraine: A History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ktyM07I9HXwC |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2009 |edition=4 |pages=21–22, 43 |isbn=9781442697287}}</ref> The Severians had to pay a "light tribute." According to Oleg, he had acted not against the Severians but against the Khazars. It is possible that the Severians accepted Oleg's rule because he imposed lower taxes on them.<ref name="Franklin-Shepard"/> | |||
Together with other East Slavic tribes, Severians participated in the ] against ] in 907.<ref>{{cite book |author=Vladimir Plugin |author-link=Vladimir Plugin |title=Russian Intelligence Services |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pngrAwAAQBAJ |publisher=Algora Publishing |year=2007 |page=19 |isbn=9781892941251}}</ref> In the 10th century, in his '']'', ] wrote that in winter, the Rus princes ('']tes'') moved to and were maintained in the lands of their Severian and Krivich tributaries.<ref name="Franklin-Shepard"/> Eventually, Severian territory became part of the ], and the last reference to them is from 1024, when they are mentioned as part of the troops recruited by ] for his '']''.<ref name="Franklin-Shepard"/> They had a significant impact on the victory at the ] (1024), especially against the ].<ref>{{cite book |author=John Marsden |title=Harald Hardrada: The Warrior's Way |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0s7AwAAQBAJ |publisher=The History Press |year=2011 |isbn=9780752474441}}</ref> | |||
Scholars disagree about the abovementioned dates. Some place Oleg's conquest in the 920–930s; the Khazar ruler Joseph (c. 955) mentioned that his empire ruled over the "''Sever'', '']'', and '']''"; while Constantine VII wrote that the Severians paid tribute to the Rus and not the Khazars c. 950.<ref name="Brook"/> | |||
The Severians eventually came to be known as the Chernihovians<ref>{{cite book |author=Serhii Plokhii |author-link=Serhii Plokhii |title=The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pCdUmCWxwJ8C |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2006 |page=31 |isbn=9781139458924}}</ref> and gave their name to the region of ].<ref>{{cite book |author=Joseph L. Wieczynski |title=The Modern encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet history |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zL1oAAAAMAAJ |publisher=Academic International Press |year=1994 |page=117 |isbn=9780875690643}}</ref> | |||
==Culture== | |||
]s have found numerous rural settlements associated with the Severians, including ]s with ] bodies, from the 8th–10th centuries. Like other ], the Severians were mostly engaged in ]; ]; ]; and different ]s such as ], ], and ].<ref name="Magocsi"/> It is considered that trade was not very developed, and they offered ], ], ], and ].<ref name="Subtelny"/> According to Constantine VII, they provided not only tribute but also transport via ].<ref>{{cite book |author=Michael Postan |author-link=Michael Postan |title=The Cambridge economic history of Europe: 2. Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cHRvtwTLcMAC |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1987 |orig-year=1952 |pages=488–489 |isbn=9780521087094}}</ref> | |||
The Severians were a ] culture ruled by clan or tribal leaders, who held political authority in the commune ('']'') and convened tribal councils. The centers of political power were the fortified '']'', which were built in forests or on elevations, around which villages developed.<ref name="Subtelny"/><ref name="Magocsi"/> Some ] forts were situated on Severian land.<ref name="Brook"/> | |||
They are mentioned especially by ] (9th century, "Zeriuani"), by ] Porphyrogennetos, by the ] ] Joseph (c. 960) and by the ]. | |||
In the '']'', it is recorded that the ], ], ], and Severians all lived violent lifestyles, and they did not enter ] marriages but practiced ], specifically ], instead.<ref>{{cite book |author=Eve Levin |title=Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900–1700 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IL382sYaohkC |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=1995 |pages=41–42 |isbn=9780801483042}}</ref> | |||
The principal cities of the Severians were ] (modern ''Chernihiv''), ], ] (''Novhorod-Siverskyi'') and others. ]s also found numerous rural settlements of the 8th - ] centuries, inhabited by the Severians, and ]s with ] bodies. The Severians were mostly engaged in ], ] and different ]s. | |||
==References== | |||
Severians did not occupy areas of the west ] or the ]. | |||
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For other uses of "Severian", see Severian (disambiguation).The Severians, also Severyans, Siverians, or Siverianians (Belarusian: Севяране; Bulgarian: Севери; Russian: Северяне; Ukrainian: Сiверяни, romanized: Siveriany) were a tribe or tribal confederation of early East Slavs occupying areas to the east of the middle Dnieper River and southeast of the Danube River. They are mentioned by the Bavarian Geographer (9th century), Emperor Constantine VII (956–959), the Khazar ruler Joseph (c. 955), and in the Primary Chronicle (1113).
Ethnonym
The etymology of the name "Severian" is uncertain. The name of the Severia region originated from the Slavic tribes. One theory proposes derivation from the Slavic word for "north" (sěver; men of the north), but the Severians never were the northernmost tribe of Slavs. Another theory proposes an Iranic derivation, from the name of the Sarmatian Seuer tribe (seu meaning "black"). Some scholars have argued that Jews called this tribe the Sawarta, based on the Kievan Letter (c. 930), written in Hebrew as SWRTH (read either as Sur'ata or Sever'ata), derived from Slavic sirota ("orphan"; in the letter, possibly meaning "convert"); or that the name "Severian" comes from the Magyar Savarti ("black"; possibly borrowed from Proto-Germanic swartaz). Based on the writings of the Bavarian Geographer, some scholars connect the ethnonym to the Zuierani, Zeriuani, or Sebbirozi (most probably the Sabirs).
History
The Severians are believed to have continued the East Slavic tribal union along the middle Dnieper valley, after the political disappearance of the Antae and Dulebes, either independently or under Khazar policy. It is presumed they inhabited the lower Desna and upper Sejm and Sula rivers. They were thought to have been centered in Chernihiv ("black city"). However, as the Severians in the historical sources inhabited both the Dnieper valley and a part of the Danube valley, and as the Zeriuani realm was said to be so great that all Slavs traced their origins to it, Henryk Łowmiański believed that the Ruthenian Severians were the Slavic mother tribe. Professor Traian Stoianovich described the Severian Slavs as mix of Slavs and Slavicized formerly Turkic speaking Huns.
Some Severians settled in the territory of present-day northeastern Bulgaria, (Moesia Inferior, and Scythia Minor). According to Theophanes the Confessor, the Bulgars subjugated the so-called Seven Slavic tribes. One of these tribes, the Severeis, were resettled in the east "from the klisuras before Veregava" (ἀπό τῆς ἔμπροσθεν κλεισȣ́ρας Βερεγάβων), most likely the Rish Pass of the Balkan Mountains; while the other six tribes were resettled in the southern and western regions, as far the boundary with the Pannonian Avars. In 767, the Byzantines kidnapped the Severian prince Slavun, who had made trouble in Thrace, indicating they retained a tributary relationship with the Bulgars.
The other Severians had as neighbors the Radimichs, Krivichs, and Vyatichs in the north and the Derevlians and Polianians in the west. Those tribes had to pay tribute to the Khazars in 859 in the form of squirrel and beaver skins, which suggests they lived in or near the northern forests. In 884, Oleg of Novgorod annexed their territory to the Kievan Rus'. The Severians had to pay a "light tribute." According to Oleg, he had acted not against the Severians but against the Khazars. It is possible that the Severians accepted Oleg's rule because he imposed lower taxes on them.
Together with other East Slavic tribes, Severians participated in the Oleg's campaign against Constantinople in 907. In the 10th century, in his De Administrando Imperio, Constantine VII wrote that in winter, the Rus princes (archontes) moved to and were maintained in the lands of their Severian and Krivich tributaries. Eventually, Severian territory became part of the Grand Principality of Chernigov, and the last reference to them is from 1024, when they are mentioned as part of the troops recruited by Mstislav of Chernigov for his druzhina. They had a significant impact on the victory at the Battle of Listven (1024), especially against the Varangians.
Scholars disagree about the abovementioned dates. Some place Oleg's conquest in the 920–930s; the Khazar ruler Joseph (c. 955) mentioned that his empire ruled over the "Sever, Slaviun, and Ventit"; while Constantine VII wrote that the Severians paid tribute to the Rus and not the Khazars c. 950.
The Severians eventually came to be known as the Chernihovians and gave their name to the region of Severia.
Culture
Archaeologists have found numerous rural settlements associated with the Severians, including burial mounds with cremated bodies, from the 8th–10th centuries. Like other East Slavs, the Severians were mostly engaged in agriculture; cattle breeding; hunting; and different handicrafts such as pottery, weaving, and metalworking. It is considered that trade was not very developed, and they offered honey, wax, furs, and slaves. According to Constantine VII, they provided not only tribute but also transport via boats dug out from single hollowed trees.
The Severians were a patriarchial culture ruled by clan or tribal leaders, who held political authority in the commune (zadruga) and convened tribal councils. The centers of political power were the fortified grady, which were built in forests or on elevations, around which villages developed. Some Saltovo-Mayaki forts were situated on Severian land.
In the Primary Chronicle, it is recorded that the Drevlians, Radimichs, Vyatichi, and Severians all lived violent lifestyles, and they did not enter monogamous marriages but practiced polygamy, specifically polygyny, instead.
References
- "Slavs". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. 1993. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
- ^ Simon Franklin; Jonathan Shepard (2014). The Emergence of Russia 750-1200. Routledge. pp. 77–78, 109, 120, 195, 197. ISBN 9781317872238.
- ^ "The Ukrainian Quarterly". The Ukrainian Quarterly. 56. Ukrainian Congress Committee of America: 184. 2000.
- ^ Kevin Alan Brook (2006). The Jews of Khazaria. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 105–106, 55, 58, 35. ISBN 9781442203020.
- ^ Łuczyński, Michal (2017). ""Geograf Bawarski" — nowe odczytania" ["Bavarian Geographer" — New readings]. Polonica (in Polish). XXXVII (37): 73. doi:10.17651/POLON.37.9. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2013). "Poselstwo ruskie w państwie niemieckim w roku 839: Kulisy śledztwa w świetle danych Geografa Bawarskiego". Slavia Orientalis (in Polish and English). 62 (1): 25–43.
- Henryk Łowmiański (1986). Studia nad dziejami Słowiańszczyzny, Polski i Rusi w wiekach średnich. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewica w Poznaniu. pp. 161–169.
- ^ Paul Robert Magocsi (2010). A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples. University of Toronto Press. pp. 47, 49, 57, 66. ISBN 9781442610217.
- Stoianovich, Traian (1994). Balkan Worlds: The First and Last Europe. Armonk, United States: Taylor & Francis Inc. p. 134. ISBN 9781563240331.
- ^ John Van Antwerp Fine (1991). The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late Twelfth Century. University of Michigan Press. pp. 69, 77. ISBN 9780472081493.
- Fiedler, Uwe (2008). "Bulgars in the Lower Danube region: A survey of the archaeological evidence and of the state of current research". In Curta, Florin; Kovalev, Roman (eds.). The Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans. Brill. p. 154. ISBN 9789004163898.
- Martin Gilbert (2002). The Routledge Atlas of Russian History. Psychology Press. p. 12. ISBN 9780415281195.
- ^ Pavel Dolukhanov (2014). The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus. Routledge. pp. 182, 194. ISBN 9781317892229.
- ^ Orest Subtelny (2009). Ukraine: A History (4 ed.). University of Toronto Press. pp. 21–22, 43. ISBN 9781442697287.
- Vladimir Plugin (2007). Russian Intelligence Services. Algora Publishing. p. 19. ISBN 9781892941251.
- John Marsden (2011). Harald Hardrada: The Warrior's Way. The History Press. ISBN 9780752474441.
- Serhii Plokhii (2006). The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Cambridge University Press. p. 31. ISBN 9781139458924.
- Joseph L. Wieczynski (1994). The Modern encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet history. Academic International Press. p. 117. ISBN 9780875690643.
- Michael Postan (1987) . The Cambridge economic history of Europe: 2. Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press. pp. 488–489. ISBN 9780521087094.
- Eve Levin (1995). Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900–1700. Cornell University Press. pp. 41–42. ISBN 9780801483042.
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